"To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge 1 If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. 1
"I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) 1 The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. 1
"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk 1 I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) 1
"Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great 1 "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson 1
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan 1 You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) 1
Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett 1 blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein 1
Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to 1 "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning 1
Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes 1 Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer 1
To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 1 Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. 1
"It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 1 Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) 1
When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) 1 When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison 1
